Consider Exhibit A: Puerto Rican-descended Sonia Sotomayor portrayed as a Buddhist Asian lady by the National Review. It looks like a freaking WWII propaganda poster, first of all. Second, get your stereotypes straight. What – your mind blanked on “wise Latina” so you just toss her to Tibet or whereverthehell she’s supposed to be? Ann at Feministing has more.
Women of Color Are All the Same
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me, Racism, Sexism on Jun 5, 2009, 3:39pm | 12 comments
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There are about 84,000 things wrong with that cover. My head is pounding from an idiocy headache.
Jesus effing Christ, man. That is ridiculous, even for the National Review. Wow.
More than anything it’s reminding me of Mickey Rooney’s stereotypical character in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
Sarah –
In all your words over the years, you have come across as such a thoughtful, sensitive soul that when you post evidence of this kind of bile, I can almost feel your revulsion across the world!
Gagging in solidarity and hoping you keep fighting the good fight!
x
Those are the oddest looking lotus flowers i’ve ever seen.
Also: re: Latina/Tibetan conflation:
Didn’t you know that all Other women are the same?! Duh!
At a complete fucking loss.
That is easily the most blatantly offensive thing I’ve seen that was manufactured in the last ten years.
It’s because they’re colorblind, you see.
And once again, I’m confused as to how my father can continue reading the National Review.
Her “wise latina” comment is compared to Sandra Day O’Connor’c comment that wise female judges come to the same conclusion as wise male judges.
SDO says what she wishes were true, and what we aspire to in society when we portray justice as blindfolded. Sotomayor says what is true, that a person is formed by their background.
But Sotomayor is upsetting our pieties, and the National Review has reacted to that.
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Re the cartoon, there’s something really distasteful about the way eastern schools of thought are regarded in a magazine like the National Review. I don’t read it. Does anybody know, just how Christian is their point of view?
those aren’t lotuses, those are rows of vaginas!